>>49139904The latter. That's why Sawk didn't make into the Detective Pikachu movie, they couldn't figure how to make the gi not look like clothes.
https://time.com/5582906/detective-pikachu-pokemon-visual-effects/>Nordby says there were about 25 Pokémon that were cut during the process after being deemed too complicated to translate. The martial arts fighter Sawk, for example, was discarded when animators failed to agree on the texture of its judo-inspired outfit. “For Pokémon, what might feel like clothes is actually skin,” he says. “We would have hour-long conversations trying to wrap our heads around that.”Sawk and Throh's belts are real belts (they make them out of vines according to the Pokedex), but their "gis" are just their skin.
